Game prompter



June 23, 1931. t N. EISENBERG 1.810.951

GAME PROMPTER Filed Dec. 30. 1930 EQJE- man TRICK THREE Honons f WITNESS:

INVENTOR Nathan Ezsenherq.

H16 A TTORNE Y Patented June 23, 1931 UNITEDSTAT-E,

TENT OFFICE NATHAN EIsENBERceor PHILADELPHIA, rENNsYLvANrA GAME rnomr'rmz.

. Application filed December 3a, 1930. I Serial 505 34; I

This invention relates to game prompters, and has for an object to provide improved means which will simultaneously exhibit to a plurality of players, the bid, the value of plays, and the standing of the game in points. 1 r

A further object-of the invention is. to provide a game prompter' having means for engaging atablet for receiving scores, which 1 said tablet serves as a foot for the device,

ber of spring metal, or the like, properly proportioned to receive a part of a tablet therein to be secured by the resiliency of the channel, and with a cover member hinged to the channel to move about an are, one position of which is vertical with improved means-for maintaining the cover member at an ad usted angular position, the said tablet co-acting with the channel member to form an easel foot for maintaining the device in V proach thereto. There is shown at,15,ia bld upright position.

The invention is directed to other objects, and possesses other features of novelty and advantage, some of which, together with the foregoing, will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a view of the game pr'ompter in edge elevation,

Figure 2 is a view in elevation, seen from the side exhibiting the bid indicator.

Figure 3 is a view in elevation, seen from the side indicating the values, and

Figure 4 is an enlarged detail view ofYthe clamping mechanism. I Like characters of reference indicate corresponding .nel is providedwith feet ll', stamped therefrom, andthe upper and lower webs of the space. ous data in position to be seenby the variparts throughout the several views. H a a V his well known, that in the playing of gamesfas for instance, in the game of bridge, certain suits have certain ranks in valuefand'i certain cards also have value in the suitsaccording towhether or not the suit. is-trump, that certainbids must precede the play of the hands, and that players through negligence, frequently forget the bid and't-he value of certain suits, or cards in suit. The presentinvention is adapted to disclose to all of the players, the bid, the

values,fand also to present in view,,of,all

players, the score already accumulated.

Tothis end, the device comprises. a channelmember-lfipof resilient material, preferably metal, although it is to be understood that the materialmay be varied; This chanchannel are adapted to resiliently clamp the heading 12, of; a tablet',"the rigid sheet of which 1 3 will'th'ereby co-act with the channel 10to maintain the device in normal position. I v v F A cover member. 14 is provided which normally closes down upon the tablet, both} for protectingthe tablet, and for economy of This cover'membjer 145 carries various players, when the cover stands in up right posit-ion either vertically,"o'r an ap indicator, which, however, per se, forms the subject matter of an application: filed 011 even date therewith, and therefore, as an indicator, forms no part of they present invention. Upon the reverse side, other .data as indicated at 16 in Figure 3, maybe .ex-

l1ibited, .butthe present invention is not .di-

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ly supported throughout its extent at the hinge, it will buckleiand" become useless; The tension exerted by the winged nuts 21,

at the ends of the pintle 19, bear againstthe end ears 20 of the cover. As explained, this material is intended to be somewhat flexible,

so that these ears 20 will be crowdedinto binding engagement with the proximate ears 17 of the channel member, and will, there- 'fore, hold the cover member in vertical or other upstandin angular position. For use with atcover composed of such flexible material, the clamping of thepintle at both ends and the yielding'of thefe'ndears to nel member having feet therebeneath and with spaced hinge earsalong the edge of the upper flange, a cover member having complementarily spaced ears between the ears of said channel member and occupying the extremes, a threadedpintle inserted through the registering ears of the channel and cover member, nutscarried by the threaded pintle exerting pressure against the extreme ears of the'cover member, and a tablet clamped by the channel member co-acting with said channel and its feet to maintain the channel in normal position.

In testimony whereofI have signed my name to this specification.

NATHAN .EISENBERG.

said stress are importantto the-proper functioning of the device.

Also, the employment of the tablet is important as forminganeasel foot for main taining the channel member in normal position, and therefore,"maintaining the. cover member in such upstanding angular posit on as may be attained by ad ustment. It is obvious that while the cover 'member is shown at Flgure 1,.as standlng 1n substantially a vertical position, such absolute verticality is only elective, and that otherangular positions may be attained at the choice ofthe players. 1

Of course, the game promoter, herein illustrated may be' modified in various ways without departing from the invention herein set forth and hereinafter claimed. 1

The invention is hereby claimed as follows:

1, A game prompter comprising a channel member of resilient material, a cover upstanding from said channel member} and carrying prompt ng 1nd1c1a,means to. clamp the cover at an angular posltlon relatlve to -the channel member, and a tabletrclamped by the channel member and serving as an easel footto maintain the covermember in 2A game. prompter comprising a channel composed of resilient material having spaced ears along the edge of one flange, a cover member having interposed and interacting ears-between theears of said channel member and atthe ends thereof,a pintle inserted through theregistering ears of the channel member a and the cover, clamping means carrled by the pmtle bearing against the remot'e edges of the cover. ears, and a foot ;,re movably clamped by the channel member. i i A v s 3.;AY game prompter comprising a .chan- 

